Ferro Concepts Advanced Slickster (RE Factor) Initial Review

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] if you've ever considered buying a 5-11 plate carrier go ahead make this subscribe button and make sure that you do not buy it guys like in calmness of helps me out quite a bit the comment section is literally the worst part of the channel and the best part of the channel get in there and find out why everybody checks it out if you're looking just worth gentle the biggest support of the channel right now is Big Daddy limited Big Daddy limit is a Costco the gun world get in there great deals I get DMS all the time from people saying hey I didn't think goes real however I saved a lot of money you're welcome if you guys are looking for sick ammunition and bags and shirts we have vertex and of course if you guys wants what we directly we have the patreon ladies gentlemen and of course my IO TV's out there thank you for tuning to the channel today we're gonna be talking about a little bit of a throwback here to our original days of talking about equipment which I've wanted to do quite a bit more we're gonna be talking about the re factor slash Farrell concepts advanced slickster let's get into it ladies and gentlemen there we are so we have this on now so we have the re factor and farrow concepts advanced slickster so if you've known I made a video already on the slickster I'm a big fan of the slick sir it's basically a very low profile type play carrier that allows you to have a concealed carry and still have the capabilities of carrying plates with the advanced slick sir the idea was to take that same concept in design and upscale it to be more mission capable for certain applications so if those things in line let's go ahead and talk about a little bit now before we begin I won't say that the slickster already is one of my ever play carriers I love the design it's very comfortable and I very much so like what they did with it so let's see how they kind of changed up the advance slick sir and let's kind of see if it actually works in a more kind of mission capable setting now the first thing to be said is that everything can be scaled down on the advanced slickster so if you wanted to use this for Lowepro work it's easily scaled down to be just as slick as the original slicker - couple of these sewn on things so I think that's one of the great things about it is it can be easily scaled from one end of the spectrum all the way to the other so it's definitely something that goes in its favour and that kind of for me makes me more you know keen to go for the advanced slickster over the original slickster if I were to purchase one now before we get any further let's talk about my relationship with Ari factor in Faro concepts so if you know I'm a big fan of Faro concepts I love their play care of their slickster I also love their slings I use the sling stirrer on almost every rifle that I have all my sling stirs have been bought they haven't sent me any yet I'm still talking about but um so yeah I talked to him I they did send me this particular plate carrier to work on and do a review on and same with the original slickster as well so understand that that is kind of the end of the relationship there I haven't taken any money from them or anything like that beyond talking them I mean we're friends and stuff and we talk but nothing beyond that but just so you guys are aware of kind of our relationship with that company before we go forward pretty standard with what I've done with other companies so just like we do with firearms we're gonna work from the front to the back and work inside so starting here from the very front let's talk about what I have going on right here so up here to start with this is not does not come with it this is the COG works phone case holder so a lot of people ask why do you have a phone are you trying to like record all your airsoft matches maybe I don't know she has an airsoft did yet I really need to so what that is for is for a TAC which is Android tactical assault kit it's used in many different career fields and many different applications so understand that is why he doesn't like this or other companies that make them as well however Garrett is one of my good buddies and he makes us and these things are awesome so this is what we have on there there's mostly for my buddy when he goes off to his TV why's that I had this mountain here now that we have the car works often we have that panel off so that is a panel from Farrow concepts you can buy that allows you to mount some type of Android tactical assault kit on your plate curry I like how I took it off and it's like a ring of where the dust was protected from the plate carrier but underneath that you have velcro to attach all your Gucci patches that you can look cool on that's this stuff now so you need identification something like that if you want to mount some type of admin panel let you have the ability to do that here with these laser-cut moly panels and then of course we have a zipper so they call this a passport zipper this thing is kind of small for a passport ever others say the same I think it will fit if you stuff it in there but if you need any type of items in there most of the guys are carrying sensitive items and other areas like left upper pocket or something like that but if you want skittles something in there a little snack I'd hope for any variety of things that you need you have this little pouch right here I think it's in a good position now right above that we have this little section of webbing that allows you to connect any variety of different types of push to stalks so they put it they cut it in several different ways because I've always hated on certain plate carriers where it's only cut in one way if you have a certain type PTT doesn't always hook on to there so it's nice that they cut it so I like it that they have it cut in several different directions that way I can put any different type of push-to-talk on there as I struggle to get this thing back in so in this case the push-to-talk that I'm running right here is from ops core this is right into an amp headset again one of my favorite headsets out there just as a quick note there now you notice that a big part of the slickster advanced is the ability to route comms wires if you're not familiar routing wires through your plate carrier is a very difficult thing to do indeed so it's nice that they included all these included loops on here many other plate carriers have done it but I think they did it very well now if you don't have those it's not the end of the world there are different types of PTT retaining things out there such as the ones from favorite concepts that they have that fits into Mali but I like the ability that I don't have to have anything there it's already built in sorry soda in that way I can just store all my wires that I'm running especially for these guys who are just the battlefields running two radios it's very handy to have these to manage everything now on this particular advanced slickster I am not running the shoulder strap so unfortunately shoulder straps don't come with it but those would allow for an additional area to route wires such as from your headset your comms or whatever you're running so that is something you have to buy purchase separately and that has kind of become a theme with this particular plate carrier it's something that you kinda have to deal with when it comes these plate carriers it's like you know buying all the add-ons like a Barbie or something like that so that's kind of the unfortunate nature of it so moving down from the top right here moving down to where my magazines are right behind them we have a kangaroo pouch if I didn't have this particular these particular mags on the front and the mag pouches I could get to that a little bit easier and they allow you to carry magazines or anything so you don't have to supposedly buy extra magazine pouches I just prefer them over the kingroot pouch now even if the mag pouch is on it can still access a smaller portion of the kangaroo pouch so I prefer to keep lemonade maps that type of thing right behind my magazines are pretty secure in there that's why I use it for it now whatever you need to put it in there whether it be your mom's phone number or your dad's phone number or whatever moving up to the front here this is another thing I think should have been included with the play carrier but was not so right here I have the adapt Kate are I'm sure I'm saying out weird magazine pouches so these are actually pretty cool so first off laser-cut material and then on top of that we have Haley strategic np2 magazine research this thing is super dusty up and run the hell out of it and skull dragon with it and stuff but anyhow the ability to use the NP 2 magazines which is what they come with is really good in my opinion it allows for good attention a smooth draw they do include the bungee cords with them to retain your magazines I think that's a good idea as much as I trust the MP 2 inserts they don't they're not like super stiff on them this is enough to kind of hold it in place and make re-indexing easy if I have to or if I choose to do that now there's a lot of controversy about reading Dick's INRI indexing magazines right now in any case if you want the ability to do that they don't close up like the blue force gear ones do so it's easier to do it now that's again comes - you know what you do and how you're running things but it is an option there's another tool you get to work with as far as drawing from these I find these very easy to work in some magazine pouches it's extremely hard to get into them so she liked the original jpc ones and others or even add-ons from like crying that type of thing where you're moving on loss these are quiet they worked very well running them with like g36 or mark eighteens or you know ARS or anything like that they seem to run very well so I'm definitely happy with this product now of course again it's something you have to buy and add-on so that is kind of that sucks but again that's pretty much true of any play carrier that you're buying out there right now in the market so we have that now before we move on talk a little bit about the shape there are many different types of shapes to play carriers and what types of plates that can handle there's a lot of weird shaped plates out there and no armors kind of a big topic of conversation right now but what it comes down to is that these fit sappy plates best I've heard about people having issues of some of the larger plates like the ten by twelves sab user is shaped a little bit more narrow a little bit taller so if you get your hands on sappy shaped plates that's a highly recommend to work with this particular plate carrier so the sides here we ever elastic cummerbund so that is really awesome what's cool about the elastic cummerbund is on the back it uses velcro to do the adjustments so if you know like working with like the cry jpc or others having to constantly weave those bungee cords together to you know readjust is a real pain in the bus so it's real nice that I can simply adjust this based on you know what I have on how many layers I have on to make sure that this fits me very well on top of that the elastic cummerbund is very comfortable and I'm breathing it flexes with me when I move it flexes with me now make sure you have it tight enough because you don't want this thing kind of move around so much that when your school dragon this thing pulls down because speaking of that a lot of people ask about hi to play carries you know why do I wear the play care so high well like I've talked about in other videos your play carrier should ride pretty high about the angle alluvium I knew right there if it's any lower you're not protecting the vital organs that you need to so make sure that you have your plate care size correctly you know Hollywood is you know Hollywood has a really bad habit of having guys wearing their plate carries like all the way down here are certain games I'm looking at you Ghost Recon wildlands so make sure you have your plate cares size correctly now as I was saying about the elastic Kummer buttons so they have spots that you can put magazines into and allows you to carry two mags on each side or you know mag and a smoke or something like that that's really handy so if you want to carry two on each side plus your three up front that gives you a combat load a seven that's a very easy way carry it nothing on your belt no double stacking out so that is nice now the problem is that with the elastic cummerbund you don't have a lot of real estate you lose a lot because you don't have Molly on the side so if I wanted to mount you know any variety of different things Bank pouches or radio pouch is that type of thing I'm not gonna be able to do that now is it such a big deal I think it depends on what you do so like everything everything is scalable now here's my bomb with it I think that the elastic cummerbund is very comfortable I like it however Farrell concepts offers a cummerbund that uses Molly that also allows for a adapter that allows you to put side plates in depending on what you're doing side plates are a go/no-go but I think it's best to have the option to put them in so I think that these should have probably come with the camera bun that allows for the Molly with the side plate attachment saying I know that would have brought the price up a little bit because again you can buy those and attach that to this play care of it again this is more extra funds that you're spending on this now one thing that I really do like about this plate carrier is their comms placement so they have two internal comm pouches that run behind the Molly I go right here you can see here's one and then of course the other right now it's holding two prick 152 that's very handy now if you're not used to running internal comm pouches it can be a little bit aggravating to your skin I know my buddy recently ran an OP where his first time running an internal comm pouch with an N bitter and he had blisters on the inside from where it's rubbing so understand that you know the first couple times you use it it is going to be uncomfortable your skin will get used to it but until then it might give you a little bit trouble now what's nice about having me internal is that because you have the cumberbund over it it presses it into your body it doesn't move around as much it's very secure the external I think is more comfortable you don't have a brick laying up against your side however with the external you have more movement of the system overall as you're running it's kind of swinging around a little bit no matter what type of pouch you have and and that's just kind of unfortunate nature of it so I do like the internal radio pouches so that is a really good thing that they've done now besides running the Molly cummerbund they also have many other types they have just simply elastic one with no pouches so you can go as high pressure low pro as needed depending on what you're doing now another quick note with this is this is a very lightweight plate carrier there's a laser cut that means you don't have any Molly you simply weave it directly through the material itself because of that you save a lot of weight so compared to something like a cry AVS or a cry jpc it's significantly lighter and that's saying a lot so I've been a big fan of wearing this particular plate carrier so if you look on the back right here it's the same thing we have the laser-cut get all the way down with the velcro up on the top so again more areas to put identification on the back or if you wanted to run some type of pack mounted to your vest like the Haley strategic pack or something like that you have the ability to do that also in the back you'll notice that we have the PTT loops that allow us to route any types of comm wire so if you're a guy who's running comms or some types of wires or something electronic out through the back that is another thing that you can then use to help manage all those wires moving everywhere if you have antennas something like that again just more options that make this a good well-rounded play carrier now we can't go and talk about this play care without also acknowledging some problems that people have had I've talked to a couple people that have had issues so what that comes down to is the way that these shoulder straps integrate with the back plate so the back plate bag is separate from this it attaches but it means a Velcro on the shoulder straps so there isn't a whole lot of velcro that's grabbing onto it if you know anything about velcro you know that unless it's pressing firmly together you sort of put weight on it so I should you get dirt it starts getting wet and muddy that straps gonna fail so a couple people have noted that the shoulder straps on these particular carries have failed now I haven't had that particular problem but I'm also not weighing this down with a lot of kit so understand I don't believe that this play care is meant for extremely heavy options I think you have great play carriers like the Cry AVS for that however if you're running light to medium I think this works a lot better now when it comes to the velcro I think it depends on your body type and how you're shaping up if you have a little bit of a gap there based on kind of your body shape and the curve your spine and everything I think there's a greater chance of your body not putting pressure up against that velcro and is it running moving as it's getting wet possibly muddy depending on what you're doing that could possibly fail so that is a point of possible failure that I see now I want to be clear that the people who have talked to have used this and they've used it pretty heavily and myself I've not had any problems that Scholl dragged at this I've low crawled and done all that kind of crap I haven't had these fail on me yet but I want to be I want to acknowledge that these reviews are out there from individuals who said that they have had problems as far as nitpicking that's probably me nitpicking but I do want to acknowledge that before I finish this review up I do want to point out that there is little padding when you buy this from re factor / ferrule concepts and my buddy looked at he said oh man I need some more padding up there I'm like okay well if you're a bit of a then maybe you need padding on there otherwise I think you're gonna be fine what I like about not having the padding off there is it allows for more circulation where you're cooling I hate really thick pads days rough I could rub up against my neck so I have no problems of the shoulder pads some people might if you do maybe ruck a little bit more maybe you looks a little bit more weights I won't be so check it's you so guys when it comes to this play carrier it's skilled for a variety of things and my previous videos I've talked about plate carriers people have convicted that hey there's a lot more to play carriers than a plate magazines and a medkit and absolutely there is there's coms there's were a variety of other tools that you might possibly mean and I don't get into those for a variety of reasons but we're not gonna be talking about them but understand that this was made to carry a lot of stuff one thing my buddy asked me was if you had to carry you know dagger is a little other stuff so they're gonna fit on here yes it will but understand if you're needing to carry a heavy I think that there are better play carriers when you having to carry a lot of equipment on you that being said I think that this is an excellent extremely comfortable play carrier I'm going to be comparing it in the very near future to the spirit of systems overt play carrier that they just came out with so in the future we'll likely be doing a larger play carrier review where we'll be comparing the Avs and the J PC the over and with the Farrell concepts advanced slickster so stay tuned for that in the future but in any case I think that this is an excellent play carrier you have to buy a couple more things to make this will work particularly how you want to work but definitely it's a stamp of approval but the biggest thing everybody is to make sure you get training if you haven't if you're not training in these if you're not practicing with them then you're not doing yourself a service a lot of people ask why does the civilian need a plate carrier it's America we can never be the fuch we want so why are you asking questions put these on train with them everyone is like so quick to ridicule people people comment on videos other people wearing play cares and shooting being like oh you know what are you doing who you're trying to impress we'd laugh off the range who cares what other people are doing stop worrying about what other people do and worry about yourself sure everybody's got problems so get out there train there's lots of great trainers out there Haylee strategic cog works bare solutions tony Cowden Patent Act Ameri esoteric Darcy you know check these guys out they have tons of knowledge to give you and learn and do things ladies gentlemen thank you so much for watching I appreciate you guys and I've got nothing else for you guys I don't think for you guys control especially emotional control if you ever feel like you're about to say something and you get that little filling your stomach or you want to say it because you fat a little flash of anger or something stop yourself immediately I've never said anything that's giving me that feeling and it's turned out well or I've been happy about it you know past that point in time that I said it so make sure that you check yourself before you wreck yourself ladies gentlemen if you've gotten this far last thing if you enjoyed this video make sure you support me on patreon I have D monetize my 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Channel: Garand Thumb

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Id: gvLPl20eY4M

Length: 20min 3sec (1203 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 09 2019